Our breeder told us to bring towels or blankets....wrap them or lay them on this blanket in the car, leave it in the kennel with them for the first couple of nights....not sure if this helped...but ours never whined or cried and slept all night in their own kennels....we also had their pillow pet in each kennel to cuddle to...:-) the breeder said the blanket would hold the smell they are familiar with....it seemed to work for us...after they were comfortable a couple of days....we washed the blanket....:-)

I did bring a small blanket to rub on the mother before leaving, he did cuddle with it and I made sure he had it for the first couple of nights. Other than that I simply started the schedule right away and allowed him to adjust to it.

We get to go pick out the female we want in 2 weeks should I bring a blanket with me and see if the breeder will leave it in with them until I pick her up the following weekend so it gets a good family scent on it to make her comfortable

I can't answer that....just having the puppy in it on the ride home seemed to do the trick for us...but your breeder may have a different suggestion. If you leave it with a bunch of puppies it may get holes from being chewed and tugged on...:-/

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